Tag: Eva Bartlett
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They Will Not Go Down: Celebrating Life and Land Day
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 31 March 2009 Less than two months have passed since the end of Israel’s grisly war on Gaza. Not a house has been re-built (there is no cement; Israel continues to ban its entry into Gaza), thousands are displaced or sheltering in an overcrowded relative’s house or renting a scarcely-available…
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Electronic Intifada: Ensuring maximum casualties in Gaza
Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada March 16th 2009 “We were still young and in love. We had all of our dreams,” Muhammad Abu Jerrad said, holding a photo of his wife by the sea. Wafa Abu Jerrad was one of at least six killed by three flechette bombs fired by Israeli tanks in the Ezbet…
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Mohammad’s story
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 10 March 2009 An elderly man saw me walking the other morning. “Bless you, bless you,” he said, holding out his palm as I gave him 20 shekels. What has rendered a man in his late years impoverished and begging, in a manner Palestinians are not accustomed to? I followed…
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Ezbet Abed Rabbo: “They make like art here”
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 7 February 2009 On a visit to Ezbet Abed Rabbo during which I heard more harrowing testimonies of life under invasion, children shot dead before parents’ eyes, and being held captive for days on end, I took more photos than I could testimonies. Such is the widespread destruction in the…
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From beneath the rubble
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 4 February 2009 “This is at the beginning, when they started digging survivors and bodies out of the rubble,” Abu Qusay said. Just a few weeks after being buried alive by the bombing which attacked the building he was in, only a mere scar at his left eyebrow hints at…